In the 20th century, global sea level rose faster than at any other time in the past 3,000 years. It's expected to rise even ...

In the 20th century, global sea level rose faster than at any other time in the past 3,000 years. Its expected to rise even ...

Oceans last year reached their highest levels in three decades — with the rate of global sea level rise increasing ... including disrupting our planet’s coral reef populations.

It tells of a time 125,000 years ago, when a modest increase in Earth’s temperatures caused ice sheets to melt and global sea levels to surge. The height of the coral — which can grow only ...

Now, new evidence points to an ally for the coral reef: a little creature called the sea cucumber. The words coral reef evoke a riot of color and life, but the ecosystems are disappearing due to a ...

Giant all-inclusive resorts rose from the sand ... a marine biologist and Red Sea coral reef expert at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “This is very good news,” Fine said.

According to a study published February 26 in the journal Nature Communications, about 25 percent of coral reef’s health is dependent on sea cucumbers that keep the reefs clean. [Related ...

But more than a decade of mapping and exploration "revealed one of the largest deep-sea coral reef habitats found to date anywhere in the world," NOAA Ocean Exploration operations chief Kasey ...

The reasoning, says Clements, is that sea cucumbers are like "these little vacuum cleaners on the reef that are cleaning things up," digesting and eliminating microbes that can lead to coral ...

These injections are currently the only way to cull coral-eating sea stars called crown-of-thorns, or COTS. Native to the Great Barrier Reef and reefs across the Indo-Pacific, crown-of-thorns are ...